Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.3 Contributors:
Jessie Atkin bluesky: @jessieatkin.bsky.social
Mallory Ann Caloca
Jack B. Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social
Ace Boggess
Aarik Danielsen @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social
Lana Eileen
Kate Efimochkina
K.J. Hannah Greenberg
The first of the Illustrations I did for @lostincult.co.uk's upcoming book "Perfect Organism" a celebration of Alien Isolation written by @ultrabrilliant.xyz
Go check it out now!
Greetings, vocal artisans! Escape Pod is looking for a Trinidadian woman narrator to narrate a story we've got on the conveyor belt. If you're interested, please see our narrator guidelines here!
On the left, the cover of issue 10.2 of Screen Bodies featuring an image of Sue (Margaret Qualley) from the film THE SUBSTANCE, laughing/crying at her toothless image in the mirror.
On the right, a famous image from SAW (2004) in which a woman's head is enveloped in a giant iron torture mechanism, known as the "reverse bear trap."
The latest issue of Screen Bodies cowers in awe of the monstrous-feminine in THE SUBSTANCE, the SAW series, and New French Extremity cannibal films. #MeganKenny #ChaseBucklew #LouisaJoy @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
45% off, people!!!
Towards the Afropastoral: What NOPE Says About the Black Western
Hey, it's me!
the idea that making art is embarrassing if you don't do it well enough to make a career out of it is an objectively harmful and toxic brainworm.
"The Slide" by E.W.H. Thornton, in Dec's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/thorntonSlide.html
Consider this your final warning, and feel free to remove yourself from the classroom if you think it'll be too much for you.
-from "The Slide" by E.W.H. Thornton, in Dec's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#ShortStory #horror
I dream of having enough stability in our culture that anyone who wants to can pursue the arts, but the meaning comes from that pursuit, from translating human experiences through skills acquired over time. Art is labor, but it isn't just some commodity that can be pulped and reconstituted.
This is a good time. I'm always a sucker for stories in conversation with other stories and this is a really good example of one.
FICTION Quote From the window of the nursery, Wendy saw Jane wobbling her way down Kensington Park Road on a borrowed bicycle, hair unbraided and wild like she’d been flying. Wendy’s throat seized with fear. Was that gold glittering in the girl’s hair? Had the neighbors seen? Was that his laughter that rang out from Kensington Park across the way? end Quote Mother, Darling by Allison Pottern 2 February 2026 Strange Horizons
Mother, Darling
by Allison Pottern @apottern.bsky.social
"Was that gold glittering in the girl’s hair? Had the neighbors seen? Was that his laughter that rang out from Kensington Park across the way?"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
#shortstories #fiction #fantasy
Eyyy check out my dinosaur poem
Smart piece on what transgression is, and what it isn't, from C. E. Boyle.
www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/1/...
One day left to submit your work to Nightmare Magazine! We close at 11 pm tomorrow night.
As ever, we're looking for short stories under 7500 words, flash stories 0-1500 words long, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis
“She didn’t weep. / She got mad. / Mad means something.”
lithub.com/letter-from-... #IceOut #ReadRiseResist
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Hey, it’s my werewolf story!
agreed !!!! but also.... there are some rlly gr8 trans horror papers lined up for this years queerhorrorconference.com ! hosted by HWA & U Pitt! schedule + registration sign up shld be out soon---everythings on zoom, u can watch and chat from wherever you are ♡
Hey, it’s my werewolf story!
New story out now from @lightspeedmagazine.com! This one is all about how it feels to work in higher education these days. Spoiler: it feels extremely bad, like “what if your university signed a compact with the actual devil and now there’s an unbreakable curse” levels of bad 🫠
As a heads up, my werewolf story “The Dog Road” will be in episode 730 of Tales to Terrify coming out on Friday!
talestoterrify.com
@talestoterrify.bsky.social
A photo of a convention table display for artists ginsays and nosy dog soaps
a photo behind a convention artist alley table of a seafood cup Noodle
ALA day 1...! come visit me and my cup noodle crime
g.a. costa's poem "On the Factory Floor" depicts industrial accidents and their disturbing consequences.
We take a deep dive into the poem/author, including her inspiration from The Jungle and Billie Holiday. Plus, a mini-set of 1920s industrial/futurist music:
open.substack.com/pub/radonjou...
We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times.
Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
Hell yes. Keep an eye out for our show in 2026.
THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER
Dan Stevens, Judith Light, CCH Pounder, Stephen Root, Aasif Mandvi, John Benjamin Hickey, and so many more great actors.
I am so proud of what we created and for you all to see it. It’s gonna fuck you up! In a good way.
Happy new year! fingers crossed you all have a great '26
